Computers Get Infected Owing to Trusted Sites
Avast the anti-virus developer tracked hackers who contaminated some 5m computers when the systems accessed websites users thought were secure. Said Senior Virus Analyst Jiri Sejtko with Avast, the risk was within the known, daily trustworthy areas across the Net that were as routine-like as one's morning coffee. Securecomputing.net.au published this in news on February 21, 2011.
Sejtko further said that people reported the company of false-positive identifications as well as even turned off the anti-virus on their PCs so they could get onto their wanted website, but then regretted of having done so.
In the meantime, Avast believes there are 3 types of malware that are exploiting users' trust. These are the Ill group ("port 8080" contamination) that covers over 3,400 domains disseminating malware along with 200,000 contaminated domains; a self-replicating bot network, Kroxxu, which contains 300 malware disseminating domains that last for more than 3 months; as well as a fake anti-virus disseminator JS:Prontexi that so far has posted over 5m bogus adverts.
